"Maslin buys lunch, and
suggests it would be of benefit to everyone if Mulder just left
the Bureau of his own free will.

No publicity. No political machinations to
give him another last minute reprieve. No embarrassing meeting
minutes that might imply that a federal agent had been allowed
to run wild with the FBI's time, money and authority, or worse
still something that might suggest that said agent was not even
be playing for the home team."